CONTENTS

Alan Cafruny, Timothy Lehmann: Over the Horizon?Nine years on, what is the balance sheet of the Occupation? An accounting of imperial assets—oil contracts, weapons deals, hobbled client state—still in Washington’s pocket after the drawdown.

Philippe Schmitter: Classifying an AnomalyOpening a symposium on Perry Anderson’s The New Old World, Philippe Schmitter records its divergences from the existing EU literature. How should the Union itself be categorized, and what futures await it?

Alain Supiot: Under Eastern EyesOrigins of the EU’s ‘democratic deficit’ in an assault on the remnants of social democracy—gaining new impetus from the East, in a post-Communist synthesis of neoliberal doctrine and authoritarian practice.

Jan-Werner Müller: Beyond Militant Democracy?Brussels’s dearth of legitimation has intentional roots, argues Jan-Werner Müller. The role of constitutional fetters in the post-war settlement, and of Christian Democratic distrust of popular sovereignty.

Perry Anderson: After the EventReplying to critics, Anderson renews his critique of European narcissism, before turning to the dynamics of the EU debt crisis, and Berlin’s role in producing and exacerbating it.

Wolfgang Streeck: Markets and PeoplesToday’s Euro-turmoil as amplification of the clash between popular and financial interests. Turns of the dialectic of democracy and capitalism, and possible escape routes from the dictatorship of capital markets.

Pierre Brocheux: Reflections on VietnamLeading historian of Indochina discusses the emergence of nationalist and communist impulses—and their subsequent fusion—in the country’s long struggle against outside rule.

Mario Tronti: Our OperaismoReflections on the historical experience, core friendships and culture of operaismo from one of its intellectual figureheads. Workerism as a perspective and a politics now lost to decades of defeat.

Hazem Kandil: Whose Golden Age?Hazem Kandil on Alaa Al Aswany, On the State of Egypt. The author of The Yacoubian Building yearns for a lost golden age of liberalism.